Imagine driving on the Fourth of July to a city that you have never visited. There is no place to park and the traffic seems very heavy. As you look for a parking place,
you see streams of people heading toward the main street and you see that it has been blocked off to traffic. Not certain of what to make of all this, you think a few seconds and determine that a parade is imminent. The process that you are using to come to your conclusion sounds most like
a. analogical problem solving.
b. the availability heuristic.
c. deductive reasoning.
d. inductive reasoning.
Answer: d. inductive reasoning.
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a. stereotyping all members of a culture as being the same b. restrictions placed on foreign researchers c. lack of norms for standardization d. anti-science bias
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